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| − | '''Happy Vertical People Transporters''' is the name for the lifts in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (travel guide)|the Hitchhiker's Guide]] offices are called . As designed by the Corporation, they are meant to be sentient (enough to argue with) and have "defocused temporal perception." The latter concept is meant to enable the lifts to see far enough into the future to arrive at a floor before a potential passenger realises they wanted a lift, thus saving them from having to wait around and make friends like they would have to do normally. |
+ | '''Happy Vertical People Transporters''' is the name for the lifts in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (travel guide)|the Hitchhiker's Guide]] offices are called . As designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, they are meant to be sentient (enough to argue with) and have "defocused temporal perception." The latter concept is meant to enable the lifts to see far enough into the future to arrive at a floor before a potential passenger realises they wanted a lift, thus saving them from having to wait around and make friends like they would have to do normally. |
==Appearances== |
==Appearances== |
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Revision as of 22:36, 19 March 2015
Happy Vertical People Transporters is the name for the lifts in the Hitchhiker's Guide offices are called . As designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, they are meant to be sentient (enough to argue with) and have "defocused temporal perception." The latter concept is meant to enable the lifts to see far enough into the future to arrive at a floor before a potential passenger realises they wanted a lift, thus saving them from having to wait around and make friends like they would have to do normally.
Appearances
The Happy Vertical People Transporters appeared in:
- Fit the Seventh, voiced by David Tate.
- The radio series' Quintessential Phase.
- The computer game Starship Titanic.